KAMLA DEVI vs UNION OF INDIA AND ORS

Judgment text excerpt

$~19 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Date of Decision: 04th July, 2025 + CM(M) 4197/2024 & CM APPL. 38512/2025 KAMLA DEVI .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Sandeep Singh Nainwal, Advocate. versus UNION OF INDIA AND ORS .....Respondent Through: Ms. Nidhi Raman with Mr. Akash Mishra, Advocate (CGSC) for UOI. Mr. Gourav M., Proxy Counsel for Ms. Avni Singh, Panel Counsel for GNCTD. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE MANOJ JAIN J U D G M E N T (oral) CM APPL. 38511/2025 (for early hearing) 1. Petitioner seeks early hearing of the main petition, which is now scheduled for further consideration on 10.09.2025. 2. Since the learned counsel for the respondents are also present today, with the consent of everyone, the main petition has been taken up today itself for consideration. 3. The application stands disposed of in aforesaid terms. CM(M) 4197/2024 4. The point raised in the present petition is a very short and precise. 5. The petitioner has filed a suit seeking damages of Rs.25 lacs. 6. Her case, in brief, is to the effect that when her son returned from the School on 03.02.2012, he complained of a severe headache and she took Signature Not Verified Digitally Signed CM(M) 4197/2024 1 By:SONIA THAPLIYAL Signing Date:05.07.2025 13:12:02 him, initially, to Lal Bahadur Shastri Hospital and then to All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) and Safdarjung Hospital. 7. According to her, her son died on account of negligence in providing requisite and timely treatment to her son by the said hospitals. 8. Earlier, she had filed a writ petition which was disposed of while granting her permission to take appropriate proceedings, in accordance with law and it was in the abovesaid background that she had filed the suit as an indigent person way back in the year 2015. 9. Learned cou